System and method for predictive modeling and adjustment of behavioral health

ABSTRACT

A cloud-based system and method for predictive modeling and positive adjustment of behavioral health are disclosed. The system includes sensors collecting data associated with subject location and activity, and linked to a subject computing device. The system translates data aggregated from the data sources into state information, and iteratively updates, via the translated state information, a de-identified contextual model for the subject which in an embodiment may be a Life Context Graph as described herein. An end point server compares the de-identified contextual model to a de-identified aggregate of peer-based contextual models, wherein data security and privacy is preserved, and the system further iteratively updates the subject contextual model based thereon. The system accordingly identifies behavioral trigger actions based on the collected data and/or the updated subject contextual model, and generates a predetermined clinical response corresponding to the identified behavioral trigger action.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent ApplicationNo. 62/364,358, filed Jul. 20, 2016, which is hereby incorporated byreference.

A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains materialthat is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has noobjection to the reproduction of the patent document or the patentdisclosure, as it appears in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office patentfile or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

An invention as disclosed herein relates generally to decision supportsystems for mental health services. An invention as disclosed herein mayrelate more particularly to the implementation of data analysis andpredictive analytics to identify patterns of behavior, furtheroptimizing the delivery of support services for subjects.

While a substantial proportion of all people will experience a mentalhealth condition in their lifetime, a severe shortage of mental healthproviders can limit the availability to the help that is needed. Thelimited amount of time available to any individual may further beinsufficient, as conventional tools such as weekly outpatient therapyfrequently fail to identify and provide timely responses to thebehavioral triggers and emotional responses that people go to counselingto change in the first place.

When counseling is available, it can be prohibitively expensive forindividuals and for their insurance providers. Even when insurancecovers the cost of mental health services, there are still deductiblesand out of pocket costs, which can be thousands of dollars, not tomention the precious resource of time. For many, attending appointmentsis simply impractical or even impossible.

It would therefore be desirable to provide a system and method forsupporting people in the exact moment they need it most, rather than atthe time of the next scheduled appointment.

It would further be desirable to gather and implement real time data,and to identify triggers that would indicate a need for deliveringsupport.

It would further be desirable to determine the effectiveness ofinteractions and interventions in a data-driven context, as for exampleeach individual responds uniquely to interventions based on a complexset of factors including personality, readiness for change, genetics,family history and more.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Exemplary systems or methods according to the present disclosure providefor the gathering, assimilation, and processing of behavioral healthdata pertinent to a plurality of subjects, and human-assisted artificialintelligence processing thereupon to generate an intervention-capableuser interface. One exemplary purpose for generating such user interfaceis to understand, manage, measure, and improve the health of a givengroup of subjects.

In one aspect as disclosed herein, embodiments of a hosted system ormethod may take the form of a “conversational user interface” via amobile application, website, or the like, existing pervasively across anetwork and capable of interacting with one or more subjects in responseto aggregated and processed subject data. The “conversational userinterface” may be the subject-facing interaction component of a largermodel comprising multiple processes including surveilling patients forbehavioral data and aggregating surveilled data, modeling of anindividualized Life Context Graph (LCG), comparing the individualizedLife Context Graph to a surrogate peer model, and providing for meansfor interaction and behavioral based upon trigger states obtained fromthe comparison.

In one aspect of the invention, the “conversational user interface” maybe described as a “bot,” wherein the “bot” is a healthcare decisionsupport tool individualized to a specific subject. In an embodiment,each bot may be iteratively unique for each subject, wherein themultiple processes may be uniquely interpreted, governed, and/or appliedto the subject based upon the subject's unique behavioral data andsurveilled data. In various embodiments, the bot may be capable ofinteracting with its unique subject and one or more healthcarespecialists for the subject. In an embodiment thereof, the bot may beconfigured to provide both voice and text feedback as well as voice andtext input methods in plain language. In a further embodiment, the botsmay be configured to interact and communicate with one another using thesame or similar plain language communication and derive data therefromto contribute to the aforementioned processes including surveillingpatients for behavioral data and aggregating surveilled data, modelingof an individualized Life Context Graph, comparing the individualizedLife Context Graph to a surrogate peer model, and providing for meansfor interaction and behavioral based upon trigger states obtained fromthe comparison.

These processes may be contemplated as individual methodologiesperformed iteratively and continuously in the context of the greaterapplication for behavioral health improvement. For example, surveillanceand data aggregation may generally combine traditional population healthinputs with data not traditionally gathered in the context of healthcaresuch as employment data, personnel data, Internet of Things data,consumer behavior data, environmental data, and other such data as canbe gathered from user-centric computer inputs and accounts; this datamay be aggregated for an individual into a Life Context Graphrepresenting a collection of readings, messages, entities,relationships, work items, and other things that in combinationrepresent the context for a consumer's life, and in aggregate, that of apopulation. Where the process is iterative and continuous, the LifeContext Graph may be updated continuously based on the ongoingintroduction of new data.

In one embodiment, the Life Context Graph may be generally schema-less,being represented in any machine state by a “property dictionary” ofkeys and values. For example, keys may be text strings and values may bean object or sub-dictionary of keys and values, such that theintroduction of new values and new keys will not invalidate prior data.As a specific example, a text string may be “[Subject] is feeling[emotion],” wherein the subject and emotion are values. In instanceswhere the subject is “John Doe” and the emotion used to describe JohnDoe's emotional state is “happy,” this key and value combination may bepublished to the Life Context Graph for John Doe as a contextual“State.” Because of the schema-less nature of the string and valuecombination, the introduction of a new value that more specificallydefines the same iteration would affect future contextual Statedefinition without invalidating prior determinations. For example,inclusion of a new value “elated” used to describe a feeling ofhappiness in response to a specific trigger as opposed to a generalstate of contentedness may result in future States where John Does wouldbe classified as “happy” to be now classified as “elated” withoutinvalidating prior States in which John Doe was generally accuratelyclassified as “happy.” The Life Context Graph for John Doe wouldtherefore grow organically based upon the introduction of new keys andvalues, increasing in specificity and predictive accuracy over time.

In one aspect, embodiments of a hosted system or method as disclosedherein may compare individual Life Context Graphs or States thereof withother Life Context Graphs or States thereof to create a peer group orgeneral population model based upon the nexus of State data. Theaggregation and generalization of individual Life Context Graphs into agreater population model allows for both absolute surveillance ofspecific subjects as well as relative surveillance of an aggregation ofsubjects. Population models may be constrained to certain inputthresholds to create peer group models, e.g. creating a peer group ofthe top ten percent of the population at highest risk of depression.

One advantage of modeling peer groups and populations based onindividual lifetime graphs is that comparison of individualizedinformation can be made to de-identified data, allowing for accuratecomparison of health behavioral data to health behavior models withoutrisking data spill of other subjects. In traditional models ofbehavioral health model comparison, one subject is ranked against one ormore other subjects to determine relative valuation. For example, JohnDoe might be classified as the most at risk for a behavioral state ofovereating with a value of 87%, compared to Jane Smith as second-most atrisk with a value of 74%, compared to Daniel Jones as third-most at riskwith a value of 68%. Because these comparisons are direct, the systemperforming the comparison of values must have access to all threesubjects' identities and data. This access creates a high risk of dataspill, wherein the compromise of the system would release all threesubjects' identities and healthcare data.

Comparatively, embodiments of the hosted systems and methods disclosedherein that compare individual Life Context Graphs to peer models and/orpopulation models, the greater models can be de-identified, therebysignificantly decreasing the risk of data disclosure of other peermodels without sacrificing predictive and comparative accuracy. Forexample, hosted systems and methods may employ one or more of variousprivacy maintaining methods including differential privacy, homomorphicencryption, end-to-end encryption, asymmetric encryption, and shared-keyencryption to transmit individual life context data to an endpointaggregator. The endpoint aggregator may perform mathematical,statistical, and logic-based analyses to provide an assessment of therelative context of individual data against de-identified population orpeer group data. Encryption tools and methodologies used herein mayallow for encryption of the actual values while still allowing forapplication of statistical functions without direct introspection; thus,when a result of statistical analysis is decrypted, the result may bewithin range of the original data without revealing the specifics of theoriginal data against which the individualized data was compared.

This methodology is novel to the healthcare and behavioral healthindustries. Traditionally, all population-level analytics have beenperformed entirely centrally, such as in a data server or cloud serverwith full access to population-level data. Accordingly, data comparisonis done on a directly comparative basis with all information about allpopulation members being visible to the centralized aggregator. Despitethe traditional use of privacy methods such as data encryption,healthcare organizations have suffered significant data breaches anddata spillage, indicating that traditional methods of data protectionare insufficient. Accordingly, aforementioned de-identification methodssignificantly reduce risk by limiting data spillage risk to theindividual consumer and their device, regardless of whether compromiseoccurs via the user's device or at the data aggregator level.Furthermore, the use of homomorphic encryption reduces the number ofpoints where data compromise could occur, including at least at theaggregator, as the data does not need to be decrypted in order toperform statistical comparison.

In a further embodiment, hosted systems and methods may employ blockchain tools to manage the Life Context Graph. For example, the LifeContext Graph may employ block chain signatures across graph iterationsor States to ensure authenticity of data in untrusted networks.

In another aspect, embodiments of a hosted system or method as disclosedherein may perform historical and predictive modeling by comparing pastpatterns of behavior via individualized and peer group Life ContextGraphs to current behavior exhibited to determine if current behaviorsare unusual and indicative in a change of risk context. Unliketraditional population health predictive models which model predictivecost, predictive death, and predictive risk in an absolute context basedupon an input population, models of the systems and methods disclosedherein employ state machine methodologies to carry continuously anassessment of the risk or factors being surveilled and calculate changesin state thereupon. The state changes are therefore determined in bothabsolute and relative context, compared against a dynamic growth modelas opposed to a static population model. In other words, the comparisonof state change is performed iteratively based upon a living populationas opposed to a static model of risk, allowing for more naturalfluctuation of states and reducing the risk of triggering falsepositives.

Furthermore, unlike traditional behavioral health and healthcare modelswhich focus on medical intervention, models disclosed herein may furtherinclude productivity outcomes, performance outcomes, total cost ofliving, richness of life experience, kindness, cultural contribution,and sense of community. These additional models allow for interventionsfor behavioral health, life experience, and kindness and thereby allowfor adjustment and improvement of total well-being states and not simplymedical health.

In certain embodiments, the modeling function may be recursive and feedback into the Life Context Graph as an insight, thereby permitting theLife Context Graph to be heuristic and self-learning. For example, aLife Context Graph comprised of several States showing that a subject isambulatory, animated, posting on social media using happy contexts, neara spouse, sleeping eight hours a night, on vacation, and at a beach mayresult in a Life Context Graph model insight defining the subject as“happy.” This model result can be fed back into the Life Context Graphas a State defining the subject as “happy.” Comparative interactionswith the subject or a user may accordingly adjust this State definition,such as if comparative input says that the subject is not happy and theState generation is not accurate. For example, new data in the form ofadditional States may redefine context, such as if modeling from theLife Context Graph determines that the subject is sunburned, and theState of being sunburned may result in a model wherein a new State saysthe subject is “uncomfortable” or “feeling pain” as opposed to, or inaddition to, being “happy.” Accordingly, the new State of being“uncomfortable” or “in pain” is added to the Life Context Graph and usedfor future iterations of modeling.

In yet another aspect, embodiments of a hosted system or method asdisclosed herein, the modeling performed against the Life Context Graphmay result in the performance of If-Then processing whereby the presenceof certain States calls for the execution of certain actions. ThisIf-Then processing of State data may be characterized herein as aWHEN-THEN or WHEN-DO programming methodology. One advantage of this typeof WHEN-THEN methodology is that it permits users with very limitedprogramming experience to define triggers and actions via simplifiedprogramming interfaces. For example, the WHEN-THEN methodology can beexpressed as a visual programming language wherein trigger WHEN blocksand trigger THEN blocks can be arranged using drag and drop, pulldown,touch, and similar visual programming interfaces. Assemblies of WHEN andTHEN blocks create logic flows, generally known as recipes orapplications.

The combination of traditional WHEN-THEN methodology with the iterativeand continuous generation and modeling of the Life Context Graph permitsusers to create more than simple logic flows; because of the iterativeand continuous nature of the Life Context Graph and State generation,WHEN-THEN interaction creates a means by which a user can interact withthe modeling process based upon triggers used from the model itself. Forexample, a clinical therapist user may program a flow whereby when aclient subject, known to have adverse responses during thunderstorms, issent a message action when a triggering event of a thunderstorm forecastoccurs. This process allows the user to extent the user's expertempathetic behavioral care process beyond traditional scopes. Thebehavioral care process occurs across time, to a future unknown point atwhich a thunderstorm occurs, and space, to the potentially non-proximatelocation of the subject relative to the user.

Moreover, the WHEN-THEN methodology can be uniquely implemented in thebehavioral health space via a drag-and-drop programming interfacewherein IF flows are logically and visually connected to THEN actions,enabling visual interface-based programming of core logic behaviors. Asopposed to having a programmer translate coach- and clinician-baseddiagnostics for “If-Then” responses, the deployment of a drag-and-dropinterface wherein non-programmer coaches, clinicians, and otherbehavioral health experts allows said experts to directly and easilycreate the diagnostic flows necessary without relying on a third-partyprogrammer to translate said flows. Not only does this improve accuracyand reduce errors caused by programming translations, it allowsnon-programmer behavioral health experts to directly extend their careiteratively and on the fly to both current need solutions and to futureneed solutions, improving the behavioral health modification process byenabling targeted, authentic response actions.

Because the generation of WHEN-THEN logical flows may result in thecreation of multiple States fed back into the subject's Life ContextGraph, iterative user interaction with the system creates ahuman-assisted artificial intelligence wherein human interaction canimprove machine learning functions for the modeling of States. Theresult of this combination of methodologies allows for theimplementation of highly targeted and directly actionable care andintervention actions via a behavioral care application. For example, amessaging application can identify States and actionable flows specificto the behavioral health improvement of one individual or a select groupof individuals over another with minimal human assistance. For example,where a first subject may react to stress negatively and a secondsubject may react to stress positively, a determination of a Statewhereby the subject is “stressed” may result in differentiated actionsbased upon user-inputted flows; one flow may suggest that for subjectswith positive stress reactions a message should be generated inspiringproductive activity whereas another flow may suggest that for subjectswith negative stress reactions a message should be generated inspiringrelaxation activity. In said example, each user may take differingactivities but, in the context that a State or plurality of Statesindicating successful completion of that activity, may result in same orsimilar positive State feedbacks in each subject's Life Context Graph.

In instances where resultant State feedbacks indicate subject States inneed of further adjustment or intervention, a user may be able toperform necessary interactive intervention through the creation of newflows. Using the prior example, a subject failing to perform thesuggested activity for several iterations of the suggestion may indicatea problem with the suggested activity, resulting in a new, user-definedflow such as suggesting a different activity determined to be beneficialto the behavioral health of the user; for example, a flow may suggest adifferent activity for the subject more known to generate the desiredresult, or a flow may suggest that the subject create a lifestylepattern that allows for the performance of the originally suggestedactivity. More specifically, where the Life Context Graph indicates viaStates that it is a sunny day for the subject and the subject is at anelevated risk for depression and obesity, a flow may generate a messageto the subject inspiring them to go for a run. If the subject fails togo for a run repeatedly, in turn generating States whereby a subject“did not go for a run,” a flow may generate a message suggesting theuser create a workout routine to schedule running. Alternatively, theflow may generate a message asking the subject why the subject did notgo for a run, thereby creating additional State data via the subject'sresponse (e.g. “knee hurts,” “uncomfortably hot,” “doesn't enjoyrunning,” etc.).

Accordingly, in an embodiment of an invention as disclosed herein, acloud-based system and method are provided for predictive modeling andpositive adjustment of behavioral health. The system includes sensorscollecting data associated with subject location and activity, andlinked to a subject computing device. The system translates dataaggregated from the data sources into state information, and iterativelyupdates, via the translated state information, a de-identifiedcontextual model for the subject which in an embodiment may be a LifeContext Graph as described herein. An end point server compares thede-identified contextual model to a de-identified aggregate ofpeer-based contextual models, wherein data security and privacy ispreserved, and the system further iteratively updates the subjectcontextual model based thereon. The system accordingly identifiesbehavioral trigger actions based on the collected data and/or theupdated subject contextual model, and generates a predetermined clinicalresponse corresponding to the identified behavioral trigger action.

In one exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, the system mayfurther include a clinician decision support interface configured fordisplay and user interaction via a clinician computing device. Theclinician decision support interface may comprise software toolsenabling selective generation of a trigger comprising each of an IF orWHEN component, a state component and an action component, wherein aprocessor associated with the subject computing device is configured toidentify the behavioral trigger action by identifying the presence ofthe state component via one or more of the collected data associatedwith subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, andcausing implementation of the action component associated with thetrigger.

In another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, the statecomponent may comprise a combination of one or more states developedfrom the translated data aggregated from the one or more data sourcesinto state information.

In another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, the actioncomponent may comprise one or more of an interactive messagingapplication executed via a graphical user interface associated with thesubject computing device and an automated regulation of settings for oneor more home environment devices associated with the subject.

In another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, aprocessor associated with the subject computing device may further beconfigured to employ homomorphic encryption tools to de-identify thesubject contextual model at one or more of the subject computing deviceand the end point server, and block chain signature tools to manageiterations or states associated with the contextual model.

In yet another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, thedata sources may comprise one or more remote state tracking deviceslinked to a hosted server and configured to provide one or more remoteorigins of state information, wherein the hosted server is configured totrack a last known state of the state information when the remote statetracking device is not currently accessible via the communicationsnetwork.

In still another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, thesystem may further comprise a state feedback loop wherein the processorassociated with the subject computing device is further configured togenerate iterative updates to the contextual model based on subjectaction or inaction corresponding to the clinical behavioral response.

In still another exemplary aspect of the aforementioned embodiment, theprocessor associated with the subject computing device may further beconfigured to generate, responsive to subject inaction associated withthe state feedback loop, one or more of a predetermined secondaryclinical behavioral response and an interactive query string via a userinterface for the subject computing device.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram representing an embodiment of a system forpredictive modeling and adjustment of behavioral health according to thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram representing an embodiment of a process foraggregating surveillance data into a Life Context Graph as implementedby the system of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram representing an embodiment of a process formatching an individual subject to health resources based upon analyticsderived from the subject's Life Context Graph as implemented by thesystem of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a flow diagram representing an embodiment of a process forgenerating reports for statistical comparisons of a subject's wellnessdata and States to the wellness data and states of one or more peergroups and/or populations as implemented by the system of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram representing a second embodiment of a systemfor predictive modeling and adjustment of behavioral health according tothe present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Referring generally to FIGS. 1-5, various exemplary embodiments of aninvention may now be described in detail. Where the various figures maydescribe embodiments sharing various common elements and features withother embodiments, similar elements and features are given the samereference numerals and redundant description thereof may be omittedbelow.

Referring first to FIG. 1, an exemplary embodiment of a system 100 forpredictive modeling and adjustment of behavioral health as disclosedherein may include a subject device 101 associated with a specificsubject and connected to a communications network 102. In variousembodiments, a plurality of subject devices associated with the samesubject may be connected to the communications network 102 and mayinclude various computer devices including mobile phone, smartphone,tablet, laptop, desktop, and the like. Residing on the memory of thesubject device 101 is a software application 104 for the display of aconversational user interface for systemic interaction with the subject.In various embodiments, the application may further be configured toperform the functions of collecting and processing of data obtained fromproximate or device-associated sensors 103; creating, maintaining, andprocessing of Life Context Graphs (LCGs) as described in exemplarymethods below; and creating of historical and productive models asdescribed in exemplary methods below. In alternative embodiments, theaforementioned methods may be performed by a host server or othercomputer device communicatively connected via the communications network102. In still other embodiments, the aforementioned methods may beperformed via a plurality of subject devices 101 and/or other connectedcomputer devices in a cloud-based, distributed implementation ofsoftware and hardware.

In various embodiments, third-party data sources 105 may further beconnected to the communications network 102 and may provide data forprocessing similar to the subject device sensors 103. Such data sourcesmay include Internet accounts, social media accounts, and othernetworked repositories of information pertaining to the subject. Invarious embodiments, the system 100 may further comprised networked“Internet of Things” devices 106 in association with the subject, suchas home automation devices, healthcare devices, activity trackers,Internet enabled car data, and the like.

The exemplary system 100 further comprises a database for the storageand ongoing maintenance of Life Context Graphs 107, a HIPAA-compliantsecure membership repository database 108, and a WHEN-THEN Flow database109.

The exemplary system 100 aggregates data received from the subjectdevice's servers, third party data sources 105, Internet of Thingsdevices 106, and the secure membership repository 108 and translates thedata received into various States associated with the subject inaccordance with software instructions stored upon the application 104,whether client-side as illustrated, host server-implemented, orcloud-based. These States are added to an ongoing Life Context Graphassociated with the subject in the Life Context Graph database 107. Thesystem 100 further processes the States of the subject's Life ContextGraph in association with historical trends derived from the user's LifeContext Graph and/or peer group or population Life Context Graphs for aplurality of like subjects and makes predictive determinations and riskassessments thereupon.

The system 100 further continuously compares the States, predictivedeterminations, and risk assessments against Flows stored in theWHEN-THEN Flow database 109 and, in the event of a triggered match,executes the instructions of the matched WHEN-THEN Flow. In variousembodiments, the WHEN-THEN Flow may create a conversational message tobe displayed via the application 104 on the subject device 101. In someembodiments, the WHEN-THEN Flow may trigger the population of a reportor dashboard on a separate browser 110, such as that of a coach,counsel, sponsor, or associated consumer such as a family member. Forexample, various alert states or informatics may be reported via thebrowser 110, such as when a trigger requests the review of a coach,counselor, sponsor, or other human expert.

The system 100 may perform the various functions continuously andreceive information from the subject application, such as conversationalinput. The system 100 may be further configured to take subject-inputinformation and process that information via natural language processinginto State information. The crux of the system 100 is that theaggregation of data from the various input sources into State form, theupdating of States into an ongoing Life Context Graph, the processing ofthe subject's Life Context Graph in association with the same or otherLife Context Graphs, the reference and execution of IF-THEN Flows forthe generation of at least message actions, and the translation ofresponse actions and outputs into State inputs added to the Life ContextGraph is performed continuously, such that the Life Context Graph isalways evolving. In various embodiments, the system 100 may be furtherconfigured to perform machine learning functions such as adjusting thevariables and algorithms of the application 104 in response to analyticsperformed on the Life Context Graph and execution of WHEN-THEN Flows, soas to increase the accuracy of predictive capability and ultimatelyimprove positive contributions for adjusting behavior in the context ofsubjects' health and wellness.

Referring next to FIG. 2, an exemplary method 200 as disclosed hereinfor aggregating surveillance data into a Life Context Graph may bedescribed in part or in whole as follows. The method 200 may begin at afirst step 201 wherein the system aggregates various surveillance datapertaining to a subject. The first step 201 may comprise a series ofaggregated sub-steps including the collection of traditional health datapertaining to the subject (202); the collection of non-traditionalinstitutional data pertaining to the subject (203); and the collectionof Internet-based data pertaining to the subject (204). Traditionalhealth data may include, for example, health claims, pharmacy usage, labdata, biometric data, wellness data, and other health inputstraditionally collected by healthcare and wellness platforms. Thishealth data may be further aggregated with non-traditional dataincluding, for example, employment personnel information, employmentadministration data, performance reviews, benefit status changes, andother non-employment record information pertaining to a subject andavailable for data input. Such information may be integrated regardlessof source, such that information may be automatically uploaded fromInternet-based sources or may be manually input, such as in the case ofrecords stored in hard-copy format.

Traditional and non-traditional data may be aggregated withInternet-based data including “Internet of Things” data and dataobtained from subject-related connected devices. For example, the systemmay obtain available information from a subject's social media accountsincluding social media metadata, social media data, microblogging, userposts, pictures, moods, etc.; from phone sensors and lifestyle/activitytracking sensors for light, motion, exercise, sleep, heartrate,perspiration, blood sugar, etc.; from application data includingapplication activity, user preferences, user activity, etc.; from homeautomation platforms including geofencing activity, light activation,motion activation, temperature, etc.; and other such data as can beobtained about subjects via devices connected via a communicationsnetwork.

In an embodiment, each origin of a quantum of surveillance data ingestedmay be defined as a “Thing,” wherein each “Thing” has a “Thing Shadow”on a cloud server for tracking the last known state of the Thing wherethe data origin for the Thing is not currently accessible via thecommunications network.

Traditional data, non-traditional data, and Internet-based data maypertain directly or indirectly to a subject and may pertain to more thanone subject. For example, data pertaining to a subject's spouse, wherethe spouse has opted in to the system, may be associated with thesubject for subsequent determination of the subject's States.

Upon aggregation of surveillance data, the system continues in step 205by translating the collected data into informational component States.For example, the system may take surveillance data inputs including:healthcare and physical therapy information indicating knee injury;geolocational information about the subject's presence in Aspen, Colo.;social media pictures of a subject tagged wherein the subject isidentified via photographic processing as engaging in the act of skiing;natural language analysis of social media microblogging indicating thesubject's cognitive mood; work calendar information indicating time offwork; proximity information indicating physical nearness to spouse andchildren; and activity tracking data indicating high rates of activity;and create one or more States therefrom by comparing the perceivedactivity or subject state to available keys and values. In the aboveexample, various States could be generated including, “subject is onvacation,” “subject is happy,” “subject is with family,” “subject isskiing,” “subject is at high risk of exacerbating knee injury,” “subjectlocation is cold,” “subject family is smiling,” and so forth. States mayin some embodiments be correlated directly with each surveilled quantumof data. In other embodiments, States may be determined from anamalgamation of data. For example, an empty work calendar, e-mail alertset, and recent purchase of plane tickets may result in a determinativeState of subject being on vacation. States may be relative orindefinite, such as if “subject appears to be on vacation” or “subjectappears to be happy.” In some embodiments, States may be assemblies ofcomplex keys and values, such as, “subject is on vacation with family inAspen, Colo.”

In an embodiment, States may in turn be defined as Things with ThingShadows, wherein States not currently accessible or determinable mayhave a stored value as a Thing Shadow of the last defined State.Accordingly, States may be updated over time when one or more values fora key change. States may further be time-based, such that one Stateembodies a current value (e.g. subject is sleeping at 12:00 a.m.) and asimilar State of the same key type embodies a different value (e.g.subject was awake at 11:59 p.m.). The process may be iterative, suchthat a State key has several values recorded over time, each stored as aseparate State with timestamp.

In step 206, the system combines the plurality of generated states intoa Life Context Graph. The Life Context Graph may represent an ongoingand collection of States pertaining to the subject and may be iterative,wherein the addition of new data is cumulative. In various embodiments,the Life Context Graph may be a combination of States and non-Statesubject data. In various embodiments, States within the Life ContextGraph may be synthesized in aggregate, with each State receiving a timestamp such that the Life Context Graph represents an ongoing and dynamicpicture of the subject's life experiences and behaviors. For example,for a given subject “Guy” may contain in part a collection of States,such as “Guy is currently walking around the ground floor of his home;”“Guy is working from home today;” “Guy is feeling joy;” “The time is anormal waking hour;” “Guy is in Behavioral Health Risk Segment 0 with a30% risk of moving to Segment 1 and a 0.01% risk of moving to Segment 4within the next 6 months based on all known information;” “Guy is in theproximity of his spouse and children who are also registered subjects.”States may be concurrent or iterative. States may be recorded with atimestamp to provide a chronological timeline for the Life ContextGraph.

In step 207, the system compares the data and States of the Life ContextGraph for an individual subject with aggregated data and States for oneor more Life Context Graphs associated with peer groups and/orpopulations to determine model variations therefrom. In an embodiment,the peer group or population Life Context Graph may be an aggregated setof Life Context Graphs for a plurality of other subjects delimited tocertain thresholds; for example, where a subject has chronic arthritis,that subject may be compared to a peer group of other subjects sufferingchronic arthritis. Comparative peer groups or populations may be plural,such that a subject's Life Context Graph is compared to the top 5% ofat-risk individuals, the top 10% of at-risk individuals, males aged30-35, New York City residents, etc.

In various embodiments, the data comparison step between the individualsubject Life Context Graph and the aggregated Life Context Graph mayemploy differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, as well as othergeneral encryption models, to transmit the subject's Life Context data(i.e. data and States) to an end-point aggregator, whereby theaggregator performs one or more statistical, logic-based analyses tocompare the subject's Life Context data to the aggregate Life ContextGraph for the population or peer group. In embodiments using homomorphicencryption, this comparison may be performed without decrypting oridentifying the specific data pertinent to each subject as part of thepopulation or peer group, thereby eliminating the risk of data breachvia the aggregator's access to a full population schema of Life Contextdata; the population or peer group data is de-identified to allowcomparison of the specific subject data to aggregate data for the peergroup or population, thereby resulting in the same assessment whetherraw, identified population data is available or not.

In one embodiment, the one or more assessments determined fromcomparative analysis of the Life Context Graphs are added as one or morenodes to the individual subject's Life Context Graph, creating asubsequent iteration of the subject's Life Context Graph for futureperformance of the same method 200.

Continuing now in step 208, the system performs historical andpredictive modeling through statistical analysis of States within theLife Context Graph of the individual and of determinedly similar peergroups and/or populations. In an embodiment, assessment of currentindividual behavior and predictive modeling thereof is performed usingcommon Baysean probability to assess current behavior exhibited in thecontext of past behavior. Other common statistical algorithms may beused to determine a change in risk context based on prior behaviors ofthe individual and comparative peer groups and populations, whereindeviation from a predicted norm in the form of change in State mayincrease the predictive model regarding one or more categories of risk.For example, statistical models may further include Coarsened ExactMatching or similar techniques for comparing a subject to other subjectsfor sponsor, demographics, health history, and the like, as well asassignment of the subject to a delineated behavioral health segmentbased on severity and risk of current and future conditions.

Determinations of risk state based on comparison of past and predictivemodels may be categorized as Insights. For example, where modeling ofStates within an individual subject's Life Context Graph by comparisonto a peer group of similarly aged and able individuals suggest that theindividual may be declining in health and mobility far more rapidly, thesystem may categorize as an Insight that the subject risks a tripling oftotal cost of living within the next five years.

In step 209, the system updates the Life Context Graph with the Insightinformation derived in step 208, wherein the Insights are translatedinto States and added back to the Life Context Graph for the subject.Accordingly, translation of Insights into States that are added backinto the Life Context Graphs allows future iterations of the method 200to utilize the Insights derived, enabling the system to self-learn andimprove predictive analysis through regressive analysis of prior States.Using the previous paragraph's example, the system can determine in aniteration five years later whether the cost of living for the subjecthas indeed tripled and verify if the initial prediction was correct. Incertain embodiments, the system may adjust the predictive Insightvariables to allow for more accurate determination of risks. In someembodiments, the system may adjust the selection of peer groups basedupon the verified accuracy of prior Insights. In this manner, the systemmay, for example, identify that pregnant women respond differently to apattern of messages than non-pregnant women and, in future iterations ofthe method 200, select for a pregnant subject a peer group of onlypregnant subjects as opposed to the whole population of women.

Referring next to FIG. 3, an exemplary method 300 as disclosed hereinfor matching an individual subject to health resources based uponanalytics derived from the subject's Life Context Graph may be describedin part or in whole as follows. The method 300 begins at a first step301 where the system identifies and selects a plurality of States from asubject's Life Context Graph. The identification and selection may bealgorithmically determined based upon prior programming where theexistence of a certain set of States indicates a grouping of States tobe selected.

The system then, in step 302, matches the selected States to apredetermined trigger action. In an embodiment, the trigger action maybe expressed as visual programming in the form of IF-THEN trigger,(a.k.a. logical blocks, Flows, recipes, actions). The States may bematched to the IF component of the trigger. For example, a combinationof States of “It is morning;” “subject is now awake;” “last night thehouse temperature was 78 degrees Fahrenheit;” “subject awoke three timeslast night;” and “subject tossed and turned during sleep” might match anIF-THEN trigger to send the subject a message stating, “Good morning. Itlooks like you didn't sleep very well. Are you tired?” In certainembodiments, IF-THEN triggers may be matched based upon subjectresponses which may in further embodiments be expressed in the form ofadditional States added to the Life Context Graph. For example,receiving the response, “Yes, I'm tired,” may be filtered through anatural language processing engine to indicate a response in theaffirmative, generating a new State added to the Life Context Graph as“subject is tired.” This new State may in turn be matched with otherStates either individual or separate to the prior iteration, such asparticularly “last night the house temperature was 78 degreesFahrenheit,” to generate an exemplary IF-THEN action to send a message,“It looks like your house was really hot last night (78 degreesFahrenheit). You might sleep better tonight if you turn down thetemperature, but consider taking a nap if you can.”

In certain embodiments, the system may perform step 303 wherein thesystem references a Resource Work Item (RWI) queue wherein the ResourceWork Item represents an intervention for a subject that can be performedby a resource such as, for example, a coach or clinician, and thendetermines an appropriate trigger action or further modified the matchof step 302 based upon the availability of resources and state ofResource Work Item queues. The primary purpose of this step is to managethe workload of resources such as coaches and counselors byload-balancing the work across them. For example, if a trigger actionfor step 302 is determined to be “meet with physical therapist weeklyfor Achilles tendon rupture recovery for a duration of six months,” theResource Work Item would be a physical therapy meeting, and the resourcewould be a licensed therapist within the geographic vicinity of thepatient and capable of performing Achilles tendon rupturerehabilitation. The system may determine in this example that there areseven physical therapists within the geographic area capable ofperforming the Work Resource Item. Of these seven resources, four have25+ other commitments in queue, two have 10+ commitments in queue, andone has only five commitments in queue. The system may determine thatthe therapist with only five commitments in queue is the best resourceto be associated with the trigger action as a matter of load balancing.However, the load balancing may consider other factors beyond queueitems, such as specialization and expertise, proximity to subject,efficiency of work performed, satisfaction ratings, effectiveness, etc.

In step 304, the system determines and performs the action of thetrigger (i.e. the THEN component). In exemplary embodiments, theoutreach action may take the form of various messages to be delivered tothe subject via an application on the subject's mobile device. In otherembodiments, the outreach action may take the form of softwareinstructions to be sent to various peripheral devices connected to thecommunications network in association with the subject. For example, thesystem may adjust the temperature of an Internet-connected thermostat inthe subject's house or hospital room.

In step 305, the system may optionally reference supplemental diagnosticinstruments, personality instruments, preference instruments, andclinical/coaching data updates available in relation to the IF-THENtrigger selected. For example, if an IF-THEN trigger cues for a subjectwho has indicated repeated nights of restlessness and lack of sleep,additional resources may be referenced for chronic fatigue and insomnia.In some embodiments, additional IF-THEN triggers or diagnostic actionmay be taken in accordance with information gleaned therefrom, such asif the additional data referenced is in the form of IF-THEN triggers. Insome embodiments, the system may generate IF-THEN triggers based onnatural language processing of the supplemental instruments orclinical/coaching data.

The system may further perform step 306 wherein the system matches thesubject to one or more available prescribed resources such as communityor digital resources or a human expert. For example, continuing theprevious example of restlessness and insomnia, the system may send theState data of the subject's Life Context Graph to a selected sleepexpert. The selection of additional resources or a human expert may bemade based upon States or data not a part of the original trigger. Forexample, the system may select a sleep expert based on proximity to thesubject, the subject's healthcare plan coverage, the severity of thesleep deprivation, etc. In some embodiments, the prescribed resourcematched may further be associated with prescription parameters such asfrequency, intensity, duration, and the like. For example, theprescribed resource “coaching” may be associated with an intensityparameter and duration parameter, such that a match to “coaching” may befurther categorized as a match to “coaching for 12 weeks at highintensity.” Prescribed matches may be iterative, such that theprescription “coaching for 12 weeks at high intensity” may further bematched with “then 12 weeks' maintenance” and “then 1 year'ssurveillance.”

In various embodiments, step 306 may further involve the performance ofintervention of the prescribed resources. For example, for a matchedprescribed resource of “patient-counselor sessions performed weekly” mayfurther involve the scheduling of said weekly sessions between patientand counselor. As another example, a prescription of outbound messagessent via WHEN-THEN automation functions may be sent by the system.

In step 307, the performed IF-THEN triggers and actions of the previoussteps may be translated into State data and added back to the subject'sLife Context Graph for future iterations of the methods 200 and 300.

Referring next to FIG. 4, an exemplary method 400 as disclosed hereinfor generating reports for statistical comparisons of a subject'swellness data and States to the wellness data and states of one or morepeer groups and/or populations may be described in part or in whole asfollows. The method 400 at step 401 wherein subjects are grouped as apeer group or population and the Life Context Graphs of eachrepresentative subject are aggregated. Subjects may be grouped accordingto user preference, such as the case of manual selection of criteria, orin some embodiments subjects may be grouped by heuristic determinationof the system, such as where the system identifies commonality of traitsbetween subjects' States. Groupings may in some embodiments be expressedas organization or entity context graphs associated with a sponsoringentity such as an employer or practice group, health plan, affinitygroup, and the like. Subjects grouped may be associated with theorganization or entity, wherein one or more context graphs areaggregated therefrom. For example, the system may aggregate for amanufacturing employer subjects based upon employment location orfactory location.

In step 402, the system derives population- or peer-group-levelstatistics from the aggregated Life Context Graph information of theselected subjects. Exemplary statistics include but are not limited toIntent to Stay (the percentage of subjects likely to stay in currentemployment or school), Balanced Response (the percentage of individualsindicating a balanced response to a potential destabilizing stimulus ortraumatic event), Location Category Heat Map (heat map demonstratingsubject location at various categories of time such asbefore/during/after work), User Engagement Level, and Net PromoterScore.

In step 403, the statistics derived are updated into a Life ContextGraph for the peer group, wherein the States and data are de-identifiedand/or anonymized with reference to the individual subjects contributingthe underlying data but relevant to the overall population or peergroup. For example, whereas an individual subject's Life Context Graphmay contain the State, “subject ran for 4.6 miles today,” a peer groupLife Context graph may aggregate that State with a plurality of other,similar States to create a population State of, “473 subjects ran amedian of 4.5 miles today, mean 3.2 miles, Q1 1.4, Q3 7.6, total rangeof 0.0 to 13.2 miles for the population.” Such State may be expressed asa single complex State or multiple simple States, wherein comparison ofany individual subject's similar running statistic for the same timeperiod may be compared against the anonymized or de-identifiedpopulation model to determine relative placement of the subject'srunning State in comparison to the model population. In step 404, thesystem may generate dashboards and reports via a user interface inreference to the population Life Context Graph and individual subject'sLife Context Graph. In certain embodiments, the dashboard will displayalerts for an individual where historical or predictive assessmentindicate high risk or an item actionable by a human expert or thesubject. Such reports may be useful for an individual subject toidentify high risk areas in need of attention for improving personalhealth and wellness. Reports may further be useful to health andwellness professionals monitoring an individual or a population groupfor determining trends and patterns of wellness risk and activeresponse.

In an embodiment, method 400, individually or in combination withmethods 200 and 300 may incorporate machine learning, human learning, ora combination thereof. The system may in the context of this step andthe overall method identify which trigger actions result in the mostpositive changes and sustained levels of desired outcomes for the lowestcomparative cost. For example, the system might observe that certaintrigger actions such as messaging actions are most effective when sent acertain time after a determined event for working-age population, butare most effective when sent immediately after the determined event forpre-working age population. The system may, in the process of derivingWHEN-THEN trigger actions and in updating derived statistics as States,shift underlying variables of the determination algorithms to favor themore effective action for a subject based upon peering and effectivenessof outcome. In an embodiment, algorithms may be pre-programmed orprogrammed by human action, such as via the WHEN-THEN interface, basedon correlation of cause and effect. In another embodiment, algorithmsmay be based on supervised neural networks where the root mechanism isunknown but the lowest cost intervention for a trigger action to achievethe desired result is known. In yet another embodiment, algorithms maybe based on unsupervised neural networks where the root mechanism isunknown but the lowest cost intervention trigger action to achieve thedesired result is still known. In an embodiment, a combination of anyone or more of the above three bases may be used.

The adjustment to the algorithms may be changed or modified in value soas to populate the user interface dashboard in method 400 with the mostrelevant data; to change matching parameters in method 300 so as toresult in varying combinations of prescription parameters such asfrequency, duration, intensity, etc.; to improve the aggregation ofsurveillance data through better curation of valuable data sources; andin some embodiments to change the modality and nature of engagementinteractions such as messaging (for example, substituting the term “Hey”for “Hello” in outgoing messages where “Hey” consistently yields moredesirable results for a subject or plurality of subjects).

Referring next to FIG. 5, another exemplary embodiment of a system 500for predictive modeling and adjustment of behavioral health. The system500 may include a Thing 501 and an associated Thing Shadow 502 whichstores as data the last known state of the Thing 501. The system mayread as a data input 503 the state of the Thing 501, or, where the Thingstate is not presently available, retrieve the state of the associatedThing Shadow 502. The system may further store the reading of the datainput 503 in a Reading Queue database 504 from which the Life ContextGraph may be derived.

The system 500 may further comprise a Context Queue database 505comprising context states of Things directly associated with a user (a“Life Thing”) 506. The Life Thing 506 may in an embodiment be a set orsubset of all Things 501, and in a further embodiment may be associatedwith a stored Life Thing Shadow 507 preserving the last known state ofthe Life Thing 506. The Life Things 506 or Life Thing Shadows 507 storedin the Context Queue database 505 may further be stored in, exported to,or expressed within or as the Reading Queue database 504.

The system 500 processes the stored data (e.g. readings 503 and ContextQueue data from database 505) pursuant to WHEN-THEN or WHEN-DOmethodology (508) and extracts additional context data 509. For example,the Reading Queue database 504 may have stored data such as a user'sheart rate data indicating a resting heart rate, phone accelerometerdata indicating no movement in 30 minutes, and Bluetooth proximity dataindicating the user is in or near the living room. The system mayprocess this data to extract a contextual state that the user is nappingon the living room couch. This extracted data may be fed back into thecontext queue as a Context Record input 510, and/or the extractedcontext data may be forwarded as a Work Item input 511.

In various embodiments of system 500, one or more programmatic processesmay be described as Campaigns 512. Campaigns 512 may in certainembodiments be intent-based and enacted in accordance with WHEN-THEN orWHEN-DO methodology. For example, a Campaign 512 may be a populationhealth campaign wherein the schema and intent for the campaign is toengage in a healthier lifestyle, such as by motivating users to walk atleast 8,500 steps per day. For further example, the Campaign 512 may bea process by which the system identifies users with suboptimal healthstates/contexts or health performance states/contexts and initiates aprocess for generating a message suggesting the user engage in healthieractivities. In further embodiments, the Campaign 512 may initiate aprocess for querying for more Thing or Life Thing state and/or contextinformation (e.g. asking a user how they are feeling).

The Campaign 512 may in an embodiment be run periodically in accordancewith a Time Scheduler 513. The Time Scheduler 513 may dictate when thecampaign 512 is run based upon static state data programmed by coaches,clinicians, and other behavioral health experts, or alternatively (or,in further embodiment, additionally) based upon effective states learnedby the system 500 from multiple iterations of system 500's methods forachieving desired Thing state data.

The output of a campaign 512 may comprise one or more Work Item inputs511. The Work Item inputs 511 may further be stored in a Work Flow Queuedatabase 514, wherein the Work Flow Queue comprises a series ofprogrammatic steps for one or more desired outcomes. In an embodiment,the Work Flow Queue items may be displayed to one or more behavioralhealth experts via a user interface 515 wherein the behavioral healthexpert can adjust the programmatic step relationships to improve thedesired outcome. Conversely, the behavioral health expert may make noadjustments to the Work Flow Queue, or the system itself may self-adjustthe Work Flow Queue to the best determined relationship model inaccordance with prior iterations of the system 500 processes.

The Work Flow Queue items may be exported from the Work Flow Queuedatabase 514 as Post Work Items 516. Post Work Items 516 may inrespective embodiments be self-adjusted or user-adjusted programmaticstep data wherein the step relationships are arranged to effect animproved outcome. The Post Work Items 516 may be further processedaccording to the WHEN-THEN or WHEN-DO methodology (the process 517),wherein a performance may be output as a data extraction 518 (e.g. amessage, a context, a state, a datum, an entity, a relationship, or awork item). The extracted output may in various embodiments may in turnbe fed back into the system 500 as a Context Record 510 or a Work Item511, allowing the processes to repeat iteratively.

Depending on the embodiment, certain acts, events, or functions of anyof the algorithms described herein can be performed in a differentsequence, can be added, merged, or left out altogether (e.g., not alldescribed acts or events are necessary for the practice of thealgorithm). Moreover, in certain embodiments, acts or events can beperformed concurrently, e.g., through multi-threaded processing,interrupt processing, or multiple processors or processor cores or onother parallel architectures, rather than sequentially.

The various illustrative logical blocks, modules, and algorithm stepsdescribed in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein can beimplemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinationsof both. To clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware andsoftware, various illustrative components, blocks, modules, and stepshave been described above generally in terms of their functionality.Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or softwaredepends upon the particular application and design constraints imposedon the overall system. The described functionality can be implemented invarying ways for each particular application, but such implementationdecisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from thescope of the disclosure.

The various illustrative logical blocks and modules described inconnection with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented orperformed by a machine, such as a general purpose processor, a digitalsignal processor (DSP), an application specific integrated circuit(ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmablelogic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardwarecomponents, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functionsdescribed herein. A general purpose processor can be a microprocessor,but in the alternative, the processor can be a controller,microcontroller, or state machine, combinations of the same, or thelike. A processor can also be implemented as a combination of computingdevices, e.g., a combination of a DSP and a microprocessor, a pluralityof microprocessors, one or more microprocessors in conjunction with aDSP core, or any other such configuration.

The steps of a method, process, or algorithm described in connectionwith the embodiments disclosed herein can be embodied directly inhardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in acombination of the two. A software module can reside in RAM memory,flash memory, ROM memory, EPROM memory, EEPROM memory, registers, harddisk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of computer-readablemedium known in the art. An exemplary computer-readable medium can becoupled to the processor such that the processor can read informationfrom, and write information to, the memory/storage medium. In thealternative, the medium can be integral to the processor. The processorand the medium can reside in an ASIC. The ASIC can reside in a userterminal. In the alternative, the processor and the medium can reside asdiscrete components in a user terminal.

The term “user interface” as used herein may unless otherwise statedinclude any input-output module with respect to the hosted serverincluding but not limited to web portals, such as individual web pagesor those collectively defining a hosted website, mobile applications,desktop applications, mobile applications, telephony interfaces such asinteractive voice response (IVR), and the like. Such interfaces may in abroader sense include pop-ups or links to third party websites for thepurpose of further accessing and/or integrating associated materials,data or program functions via the hosted system and in accordance withmethods of the present invention.

The term “communications network” as used herein with respect to datacommunication between two or more parties or otherwise betweencommunications network interfaces associated with two or more partiesmay refer to any one of, or a combination of any two or more of,telecommunications networks (whether wired, wireless, cellular or thelike), a global network such as the Internet, local networks, networklinks, Internet Service Providers (ISP's), and intermediatecommunication interfaces.

Conditional language used herein, such as, among others, “can,” “might,”“may,” “e.g.,” and the like, unless specifically stated otherwise, orotherwise understood within the context as used, is generally intendedto convey that certain embodiments include, while other embodiments donot include, certain features, elements and/or states. Thus, suchconditional language is not generally intended to imply that features,elements and/or states are in any way required for one or moreembodiments or that one or more embodiments necessarily include logicfor deciding, with or without author input or prompting, whether thesefeatures, elements and/or states are included or are to be performed inany particular embodiment.

The previous detailed description has been provided for the purposes ofillustration and description. Thus, although there have been describedparticular embodiments of a new and useful invention, it is not intendedthat such references be construed as limitations upon the scope of thisinvention except as set forth in the following claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A system for predictive modeling and positive adjustment of behavioral health, the system comprising: one or more data sources comprising one or more sensors configured to collect data associated with subject location and activity; a subject computing device associated with at least the one or more sensors and linked to a communications network, and further comprising a processor configured to: translate data aggregated from the one or more data sources into state information, iteratively update, via the translated state information, a de-identified contextual model associated with a subject, transmit the de-identified contextual model to an end point server configured to compare the de-identified contextual model to a de-identified aggregate of one or more peer-based contextual models and further iteratively update the subject contextual model based on said comparison, identify a behavioral trigger action by the subject based on one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, and provide an automated predetermined clinical response in association with the subject corresponding to the identified behavioral trigger action, predict one or more changes in the state information based on the one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, and direct any one or more of an identified behavioral trigger action, a provided clinical response, and a predicted change in the state information to a clinician decision support interface configured for display and user interaction via a clinician computing device, wherein the clinician decision support interface comprises software tools enabling selective generation of customized flows comprising new behavioral trigger actions and corresponding automatic clinical responses.
 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the clinician decision support interface comprises software tools enabling selective generation of a trigger comprising each of an IF or WHEN component, a state component and an action component, wherein the processor associated with the subject computing device is configured to identify the behavioral trigger action by: identifying a presence of the state component via one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, and causing implementation of the action component associated with the trigger.
 3. The system of claim 2, wherein the state component comprises a combination of one or more states developed from the translated data aggregated from the one or more data sources into state information.
 4. The system of claim 2, wherein the action component comprises one or more of an interactive messaging application executed via a graphical user interface associated with the subject computing device and an automated regulation of settings for one or more home environment devices associated with the subject.
 5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor associated with the subject computing device is further configured to employ homomorphic encryption tools to de-identify the subject contextual model at one or more of the subject computing device and the end point server, and block chain signature tools to manage iterations or states associated with the contextual model.
 6. The system of claim 1, wherein the data sources comprise one or more remote state tracking devices linked to a hosted server and configured to provide one or more remote origins of state information, wherein the hosted server is configured to track a last known state of the state information when the remote state tracking device is not currently accessible via the communications network.
 7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a state feedback loop wherein the processor associated with the subject computing device is further configured to generate iterative updates to the contextual model based on subject action or inaction corresponding to the predetermined clinical response.
 8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor associated with the subject computing device is further configured to generate, responsive to subject inaction associated with the state feedback loop, one or more of a predetermined secondary clinical behavioral response and an interactive query string via a user interface for the subject computing device.
 9. A method for predictive modeling and positive adjustment of behavioral health, the method comprising: continuously collecting and aggregating, via at least one or more sensors, data associated with subject location and activity; translating the aggregated data into state information; iteratively updating, via the translated state information, a de-identified contextual model associated with a subject; transmitting the de-identified contextual model to a centralized location via a communications network; comparing the de-identified contextual model to a de-identified aggregate of one or more peer-based contextual models; iteratively updating the subject contextual model based on said comparison; identifying a behavioral trigger action by the subject based on one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, and providing an automated predetermined clinical response corresponding to the identified behavioral trigger action; predicting one or more changes in the state information based on the one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model; and directing any one or more of an identified behavioral trigger action, a provided clinical response, and a predicted change in the state information to a clinician decision support interface configured for display and user interaction via a clinician computing device, wherein the clinician decision support interface comprises software tools enabling selective generation of customized flows comprising new behavioral trigger actions and corresponding automatic clinical responses.
 10. The method of claim 9, further comprising: enabling, via the clinician decision support interface, selective generation of a trigger comprising each of an IF or WHEN component, a state component and an action component; and identifying the behavioral trigger action by: identifying a presence of the state component via one or more of the collected data associated with subject activity and the updated subject contextual model, and causing implementation of the action component associated with the trigger.
 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the state component comprises a combination of one or more states developed from the translated data into state information.
 12. The method of claim 10, wherein the action component comprises an interactive messaging application executed via a graphical user interface associated with a subject computing device.
 13. The method of claim 10, wherein the action component comprises an automated regulation of settings for one or more home environment devices associated with the subject.
 14. The method of claim 10, further comprising: employing homomorphic encryption tools to de-identify the subject contextual model at one or more of the subject computing device and an end point server, and employing block chain signature tools to manage iterations or states associated with the contextual model.
 15. The method of claim 14, further comprising generating iterative updates to the contextual model based on subject action or inaction corresponding to the predetermined clinical response.
 16. The method of claim 14, further comprising generating, responsive to subject inaction, one or more of a predetermined secondary clinical behavioral response and an interactive query string via a user interface for the subject computing device.
 17. A system for predictive modeling and positive adjustment of behavioral health, the system comprising: means for aggregating data about a subject from a plurality of connected devices; means for continuously translating the aggregated data into an ongoing series of states defining a Life Context Graph; means for comparing the Life Context Graph to a de-identified aggregate of one or more peer-based Life Context Graphs; means for predicting potential behavioral health risks for the subject; and means for providing automated queries and messages to the subject with respect to behavioral health improvements and adjustments corresponding to the predicted potential risks.
 18. The system of claim 17, wherein the means for comparing the Life Context Graph to a de-identified aggregate of one or more peer-based Life Context Graphs comprises employing differential privacy and homomorphic encryption models to transmit the subject's aggregated data and states to an end-point aggregator.
 19. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for ensuring authenticity of data in untrusted networks across graph iterations or states.
 20. The system of claim 17, wherein the means for generating automated queries and messages further comprises asynchronous program execution for generation of a linear workflow with respect to trigger designation and specified actions. 